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 Definitions for Touchy: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Touchy \Touch"y\, a. [For techy, tetchy.]
Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire.
[Colloq.]
[1913 Webster]
It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy
about personal attacks. --Saintsbury.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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touchy
adj 1: quick to take offense [syn: huffy, {thin-skinned}]
2: irritable and looking for trouble; "too touchy to make
judicious decisions" [syn: feisty]
[also: touchiest, touchier]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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104 Moby Thesaurus words for "touchy":
agitable, allergic, anaphylactic, argumentative, bad-tempered,
bearish, cantankerous, captious, chancy, choleric, close,
contentious, crabbed, crabby, cranky, critical, cross, crusty,
dangerous, delicate, dicey, disputatious, dyspeptic, edgy,
emotional, emotionally unstable, empathetic, empathic, eruptive,
excitable, explosive, frightening, goosy, grouchy, hair-raising,
hairbreadth, hairy, harmful, hazardous, high-mettled,
high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, hot-tempered,
hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, inflammable, irascible,
irritable, itchy, mettlesome, miffy, nerve-racking, nervous,
on slippery ground, on thin ice, overrefined, oversensible,
oversensitive, overtender, parlous, passible, peevish, perturbable,
pettish, petulant, precarious, prickly, querulous, quick-tempered,
ratty, refined, responsive, risky, sensitive, short-tempered,
skittish, slippery, slippy, snappish, snarling, splenetic,
startlish, supersensitive, sympathetic, tactful, temperamental,
tender, tense, terrifying, testy, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish,
touch-and-go, tricky, uncertain, unpredictable, unsafe, unsure,
volatile, volcanic, waspish
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